BOOK REVIEW: ‘Dead Catch’ is a good vacation read
“Dead Catch” by Cary J. Griffith was the perfect book to read on a beach vacation. I had the time to read it, and it gave me plenty of twists and turns. “Dead Catch" is the fourth book in the Sam Rivers mystery series. The synopsis of the book asked how a murdered conservation officer and a multi-million-dollar poaching business are connected to Sam Rivers’ childhood friend? Holden Riggins is an expert outdoorsman and a known poacher. He’s made a small fortune by exploiting nature’s bounty. It’s no surprise when two conservation officers from the Department of Natural Resources come upon Holden’s fishing boat, anchored beside an illegal walleye net. What is a surprise, however, is Holden’s condition: nearly frozen to death on the bottom of his boat. That’s not the COs’ most shocking discovery. Twisted and tangled within the twines of another nearby net is the dead body of their missing colleague. After the COs save Holden from the icy grip of hypothermia, the suspected murderer re